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Who do you blame in local finance? : an analysis of municipal financing in Italy
Bordignon, Massimo; Piazza, Santino - 2010
A 1999 reform allowed Italian Mayors to partially substitute a more accountable source of tax revenue (the property tax) with a less transparent one (a surcharge on the personal income tax). Theoretical analysis suggests this should give incompetent Mayors a less costly way to hide themselves,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003979382
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Incumbent effects and partisan alignment in local elections : a regression discontinuity analysis using Italian data
Bracco, Emanuele; Porcelli, Francesco; Redoano, Michela - 2013 - First version: February 2011, This version: December 2012
This paper provides a simple model to explain effect of political alignment between different tiers of government on policy choices and election outcomes. We derive precise predictions that, as long as voters attribute most of the credit for providing public goods to the local government: (i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690827
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Taxation and mobility : evidence from tax decentralization in Italy
Rubolino, Enrico; Giommoni, Tommaso - 2023
We study the impact of taxation on the location choices of individuals and tax bases in Italy. We exploit some recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014364945
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Reforming legislatures : is one house better than two?
Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - 2009
During the last decade unicameral proposals have been put forward in fourteen US states. In this paper we propose a theoretical framework casting some lights on the drawbacks of bicameral state legislatures and on the effects of the proposed constitutional reforms. In a setting where lawmakers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850512
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Leniency programs in a multimarket setting : amnesty plus and penalty plus
Roux, Catherine (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497719
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Policy deviations, uncertainty, and the European Court of Justice
Hefeker, Carsten; Neugart, Michael - 2013
The implementation of European Union directives into national law is at the discretion of member states. We analyze incentives for member states to deviate from these directives when the European Commission may sue a defecting member state and rulings at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722016
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Hold your fire! : influence of female legislators on gun legislation in the US
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2023
Objective: This paper considers the influence of female legislators on gun legislation across US states. Females have … econometrically estimate the drivers of gun legislation across US states. The dependent variables are alternately the total number of … used. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that, when it comes to gun legislation and female legislator representation, it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322052
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Demographic change and public sector budgets in a federal system
Hofmann, Michael (contributor); Kempkes, Gerhard (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003712570
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Minimum standards, fixed costs and taxing autonomy of subnational governments
Seitz, Helmut (contributor) - 2008
The paper examines the question how fiscally strong and fiscally weak states respond to taxing autonomy at the state level, a subject that is currently under debate in Germany where states do have virtually no power to tax. We use a simple theoretical model that incorporates state surtaxes on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003730271
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Intergovernmental grants and bureaucratic power
Dahlberg, Matz (contributor); Lundqvist, Heléne (contributor) - 2008
In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially have the power to influence decisions in their own favor. It is however difficult to empirically test whether bureaucrats actually are involved in such actions. In this paper we suggest and apply a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771859